Screen Time is a joke (as are other phone vendor's apps as I...

Screen Time is a joke (as are other phone vendor's apps as I said in my post above). Don't take my word for it, read this:

https://www.cnet.com/news/apples-screen-time-limits-are-no-match-for-determined-kids/

"One 7-year-old deleted an app after it was locked by Screen Time, then redownloaded it from the App Store using the cloud icon -- resetting the limiter's clock -- so he could play it again"

If you use the 'stricter' option that stops this, then other apps don't get updated. huh?

Infact Apple removed independent screen time apps like Mute from their app store because they don't like competition thats better than theirs.

And a few more simple workarounds:

"Another Reddit user discovered that if the phone is backed up to a computer, children can
download a password recovery tool called PinFinder to find out the
parents’ password, allowing them to disable the app’s usage limit
feature."

"Another user’s child sent himself YouTube videos through the iMessages
app, allowing him to circumvent the Youtube time limit his parents’ have
set up on the device."

And ofc Apple aren't going to cannabalise their app store by stopping every dangerous app that appears.

Cdchi1